Pan-Africanism: Beyond Survival to Renaissance? | openDemocracy The fact is that after 50 years African’s millions are not happy. The date tells us our celebrations are due, but the data caution us. I appeal to you to stay alert to…

Seven men will be sentenced for 43 offences â€“ ranging from rape and conspiracy to rape to supplying Class A drugs to using an instrument to procure a miscarriage â€“ against six underage girls. But what about the police officers and social workers whose refusal to act enabled these rapes? Will they be prosecuted for aiding and abetting rape? Were they involved in other ways? Is that why they didnâ€™t act against rape? Or is it their bias against working class children and against rape victims generally?

Brad Pitt-Produced ‘Big Men’ Explores Greed in West African Oil Exploration | Movies News | Rolling Stone As the United States and other countries grapple with the issue of same-sex marriage, a new Pew Research Center survey finds huge variance…

INVITATION TO ATTEND AN EVENT EXPLORING AFRICA’S FUTURE As foreign countries increasingly become involved in Africa both commercially and militarily, young academics from across the continent debate fundamental questions about the dividend or…

On Sunday a dream came true. Organized by Rea Dol, women from Le Phare in Jalouzi and SOPUDEP including volunteer nurses came together to provide the women of Canaan with their first mobile clinic. One hillside community coming to support women from another hillside community and together they climbed mount Canaan or as Jacques Roumain puts it

From Afro-Europe, a documentary “Hope in my Heart“, on the late Afro-German poet, May Ayim [in German and English] in which she speaks of her life, her poetry and racism in Germany. May Ayim’s father was Ghanian at the time…

Linking news and action | … My heart’s in Accra These values aren’t in conflict so long as you accept a particular theory of change: give people information they need to see what’s wrong in the world, and they will…

It started as a one year project and ended up taking us three years but finally Hakima and I are able to announce the publication of the Queer African Reader published by Fahamu Books. REVIEWS A richness of voices, a…

Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa: Rethinking Homophobia and Forging Resistance by Marc Epprecht The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage in the popular media in recent years….

Last Wednesday residents of Camp Bristou in Peguy Ville were forcefully evicted by agents of the state and local police. Bristou is overlooked by Mojub school which is part of SOPUDEP community and many of the women, men and…

The Racial Politics of Atheism | RD10Q | Religion Dispatches In the book I push back against the myth of the accessible American dream and look at the devastating impact that the recession has had on communities of color. I…

Recently I passed through the high security zones of Petion-Ville and Delmas on my way to Cite Soleil where policing is limited to the neighbourhood parameters. It’s very possible I was missing something and the police were hiding at…

Power Politics: Arundhati Roy | A Judgment Call Roy’s Power Politics compiles speeches and essays concisely. And I enjoy the trite style, cogent arguments, and the extra time to think about the passage or due some further researching of my…